Glossary

1. Sociology: the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; the dominant assumptions of a people or period. For example, in the Greek ethos, the individual was highly valued.

2. The character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc.

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Historicities

Historicity is defined by the understanding "that all meaning in discourse is historical, pointing to the social meanings that go beyond those that are linguistically articulated." (Blommaert, 2018, p. 303, as cited in Flowerdew & Richardson, 2018) 

This critical approach to discourse, according to Blommaert, entails "examining the multilayered historicity running throughout people’s discourses" (p.426)

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1. Also called intersectionality theory;. the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively):

Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.

2. the oppression and discrimination resulting from the overlap of an individual’s various social identities:

The intersectionality experienced by Black women.

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Intersectionality (n.d.). Intersectionality in Dictionary.com. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/intersectionality

By listening and encouraging dialogue within our programs, we can create a program that listens to its members and responds appropriately. 

Rather than insisting that children all wear their jackets outside we listen to the child who insists they don’t need it (while we may need to balance it with the parent who wants their child to wear their jacket). We may take the jacket outside to offer to them when they start to look cold. We take the time to listen and respect the child’s perception of his or her need and find a solution that works. We demonstrate that that child’s voice is important and that we listened. In doing so we are working with principles of democracy where each person’s voice is honoured and heard.

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Elliot, E. (2013). Listening with two ears: Caregivers listening deeply to babies and to self. In M. O'Loughlin (Ed.), The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children’s Emotional Lives (pp. pp. 47-67). Plymouth, UK: Jason Aronson.

A more-just world is a world where everyone has equitable opportunities, equal rights, and where systems and structures center the dignity and equity of all; human and other-than-humans. More-just worlds encompass justice seeking, human and ecological rights, and the pursuit of a society where everyone can not only survive, but thrive

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Relational leadership (2025). Moodle course. [RRU].

Pedagogy is that which thinks, studies, and orients education: its purposes, its protagonists, its histories, its relations and processes. Pedagogical thought lives within the tension between theory and practice, between what happens and the reflection on what happened. I find that one of the key pedagogical struggles is how not to identify pedagogical thought with only theory or practice. Pedagogy attends to and locates this tension in situated and contextual ways (in the everyday). Pedagogy is not interested in universalisms or objectivist views of knowledge creation (para 4). 

Considering this, we can say that pedagogy is a body of knowledge (in Europe it is considered a social science). It is active knowledge, one that seeks new bases on which to think in diverse and unfolding conditions. This body of knowledge has a long history. Its cradle is Ancient Greece. Its birth was intimately related to philosophy, with whom it keeps a close relation, and over the centuries it has tried to find its identity by letting go of the reliance on disciplines considered more legitimate in education, such as scientific management, and then psychology. Pedagogy, as a body of knowledge, thinks educational practice; it is reinvigorated by this practice and transforms educational practice. This is why a pedagogist is someone who not only tries to unsettle practice but also tries to find (and sometimes even liberate) the creative force of practice. (para 5). 

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Vintimilla, C. (n.d.). What is pedagogy? Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory. https://www.earlychildhoodcollaboratory.net/what-is-pedagogy

To govern or direct according to rule.

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Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Regulate. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regulate

An individual’s social location is a combination of their social identities and the privilege/marginalization that come with them. It is an intersectional framework for understanding our experiences as social beings (University of Washington, 2021).

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University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. (2021, July 23). Social location [Blog post]. SAFS DEI Blog. https://sites.uw.edu/safs-dei/2021/07/23/social-location/

1. Characteristic of a particular individual: personal.
2. Modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background.

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Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Subjective. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subjective